Zoe Ball to Host Television Book Club

Has anyone ever noticed the lack of literature related television? While we understand that the two things are crossover media, there are television programmes about everything possible, cookery, theatre, politics, and virtually every other subject under the sun, but television based around literature is so rare I’m struggling to think of a single example.

However, all that could be about to change as Zoe Ball is to host a new TV book club, airing on ITV from mid-June. The show is to be made by Cactus TV in association with Specsavers and will run until mid-August, focusing on one book each week as part of the show.

Publishers can submit titles, and readers can find out all the lowdown at cactustvbookclub.co.uk, with publishers given until 6th April to submit books for consideration. The show will also be accompanied by an extensive campaign supporting the book club through bookshops, libraries and Specsavers stores.

Zoe Ball says she can’t wait for the show, calling it her ‘passion project’ as she is an avid reader, and hopefully the show will prove that there is a place on mainstream television for literature and literature related shows.

Reading has never been so cool, and much of that is due to Instagammers, and even pages like our own, bringing literature back into the eye of the public again. Hopefully this new show will do even more for the hobby of reading, and bring even more people to literature.

So the new trailer for the television adaptation of Good Omens is here, and according to co-author Neil Gaiman, it contains clues to the release date of the show. As yet all that has been announced is that it will be released in the spring, and the trailer concurs, but Gaiman promises a hidden message.

The trailer is just mostly scrolling explanatory text that explains the apocalyptic plot, can you find the hidden clues? Here it is.Read More

It feels like we’ve been waiting for an age for season two of American Gods. The adaptation from the Neil Gaiman novel has been fantastic and season one got things off to a brilliant start.

Season one introduced us to Shadow Moon, who the story revolves around as he meets Wednesday, Mad Sweeney and the rest of the gods in what was a visual treat with some fantastic special effects. The adaptation received two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Main Title Design and Outstanding Special Visual Effects and three nominations in the Critics’ Choice Television awards including Best Drama, Best Actor (McShane) and Best Supporting Actress (Gillian Anderson).

It’s been billed as a groundbreaking moment in television, Bandersnatch from Black Mirror is a choose your own adventure movie, similar to the books that were famous in the 1980s.

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The latest series of Doctor Who saw Jodie Whitaker take the reins and step into the role of The Doctor, as the first female doctor, Fans of the BBC TV series have been voting on their favourite episode from this series and The Radio Times has revealed the most popular episodes.

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A few months ago we brought you the news that PBS were bringing The Great American Read to our televisions but the show was only accessible to those in the US. The show has been a huge success and through the show and votes, America chose its one hundred favourite reads.

A few nights ago the final show launched, which meant Number 1 in the Great American Read was announced. It will come as no surprise to many to hear that the number one book was selected as Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, but there were a few surprises throughout the list.